The Garden of Ediacara PDF Free Download [Direct Link]

During an expedition in Sonora, Mexico, paleontologist Mark A. S. McMenamin unearthed fossils of creatures dated at approximately 600 million years old―making them the oldest large body fossils ever discovered. These circular fossils, known as Ediacarans, seemed to defy explanation. Representatives of marine life forms that existed in Precambrian times, as much as fifty million years before life on earth began to diversify rapidly, the specimens bore a superficial resemblance to jellyfish. In this blog post, you will be able to download free PDF e-book copy of The Garden of Ediacara PDF.

A typical Ediacaran had a quilted body, three curving arms at the center, and a fringe of fine radial lines. McMenamin’s curiosity was fueled by the puzzle of whether the Ediacarans were animals or some other type of organism. How could such complex forms of life appear so suddenly, without extensive records of prior evolution? Yet, this seems to be exactly what the Ediacarans had done.

The Garden of Ediacara presents a mesmerizing documentary of a major scientific discovery, detailing McMenamin’s trip to Namibia, where, with a party that included the renowned paleontologist Adolf Seilacher, the author investigates a spectacular cast made from a colony of fossils in the Nama desert. He chronicles the long, often futile search made by earlier scientists for Ediacara, which began more than a century ago in Europe, North America, and Africa, and the various types of Ediacaran fossils that have been uncovered in the years since.

McMenamin concludes that Ediacarans were not animals because they never passed through the ball-shaped embryonic stage peculiar to known animal life forms. But, remarkably, Ediacarans seem to have developed a central nervous system and a brain independent from animal evolution. This startling conclusion has profound implications for our understanding of evolutionary biology, for it indicates that the path toward intelligent life was embarked upon more than once on this planet.

Table of Contents

Below is the complete table of contents presented in The Garden of Ediacara PDF:

1. Mystery Fossil2. The Sand Menagerie3. Vermiform4. The Nama Group5. Back to the Garden6. Cloudina7. Ophrydium8. Reunite Rodinia9. The Mexican Find: Sonora 199510. The Lost World11. A Family Tree12. Awareness of Ediacaran13. Revenge of the Mole Rats

Product Details

Here are the technical specifications of The Garden of Ediacara PDF:

Paperback: 368 pages

Publisher: Columbia University Press (October 15, 2000)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0231105592

ISBN-13: 978-0231105590

Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds

The Garden of Ediacara PDF Free Download

Here you will be able to download The Garden of Ediacara PDF by using our direct download links that have been mentioned at the end of this article. This is a genuine PDF e-book file. We hope that you find this book useful in your studies. 🙂

Below is a screenshot of the cover image of The Garden of Ediacara PDF:

FILE SIZE: 2.91 MB

Please use the link below to download The Garden of Ediacara PDF for free:

DMCA Disclaimer:This website strictly complies with DMCA Digital Copyright Laws.Please keep in mind that we do not own copyrights to these e-books. We are sharing this material ONLY for educational purpose. We highly encourage our readers to purchase this content from the respected publishers. If someone with copyrights wants us to remove this content, please contact us immediately.

All books/videos at Pick A PDF are free and NOT HOSTED ON OUR WEBSITE. If you feel that your copyrights have been violated, then please contact us immediately (click here).

You may send an email to pickaPDF [at] gmail.com for all DMCA / Removal Requests.